"Envy honors the dead in order to insult…" — Claude Adrien Helvetius
"Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living."
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Claude Adrien Helvetius
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22 Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude Adrien Helvetius has 22 quotes on this site.
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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants…
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A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he…
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
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Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
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Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and…
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for…
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The man who believes he can do it is probably right.
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What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not…
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Genius is nothing but continued attention.
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Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers…
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By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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